Če pa se ozremo okoli sebe in vidimo, da je le težko kdo tako grd ali zoprn, da bi ne mogel dobiti žene ali moža, če se pač odloči za to, medtem ko je veliko starih devic ali samcev nadpovprečne kvalitete in kulture, si vendar ne moremo kaj, da ne bi podvomili o tem, da je ločitev spolnosti od asociacij, s katerimi je na splošno premešana, ločitev, ki jo dosežejo geniji zgolj z razumsko analizo in jo včasih povzroči ali podpre očarljivost staršev.
Nevertheless, when we look round and see that hardly anyone is too ugly or disagreeable to find a wife or a husband if he or she wants one, whilst many old maids and bachelors are above the average in quality and culture, we cannot help suspecting that the disentanglement of sex from the associations with which it is so commonly confused, a disentanglement which persons of genius achieve by sheer intellectual analysis, is sometimes produced or aided by parental fascination.